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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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My story: Stanley Levinson—ANS member since 1983
Levinson early in his career and today.
As a member of the American Nuclear Society, I have been to many conferences. The International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA ’25), embedded in ANS Annual Meeting in Chicago in June, held special significance for me with the PSA ’25 opening plenary session recognizing the 50th anniversary of the publication of WASH-1400, which helped define my career. Reflecting on that milestone sent me back to 1975, when I was just an undergraduate student studying nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y., focusing on my mechanics, fluids, and thermodynamic classes as well as my first set of nuclear engineering classes. At that time—and many times since—the question “Why nuclear engineering?” was raised.
2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
Dr. Rita Baranwal leads development and deployment of the AP300™ Small Modular Reactor (SMR) at Westinghouse and has over 25 years of nuclear industry experience. Dr. Baranwal was previously Chief Technology Officer at Westinghouse where she led the clean energy company’s global research and development on innovative nuclear solutions.
Previously, Dr. Baranwal served as Chief Nuclear Officer at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Before joining EPRI, Baranwal served as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in a U.S. President-appointed and Senate-confirmed role.
Dr. Baranwal is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), and has a bachelor’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in materials science and engineering and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in the same discipline from the University of Michigan.
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